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Xenturion Prime, the Swedish-Norwegian powersynth trio, released the digital single “Halcyon” on June 27, 2026 through Progress Productions. The one-track single arrives as the band works toward its fifth studio album, following the 2025 single “Leviathan Alpha” and the February 2026 single “The Hidden Path”.

The trio build their sound, which they call powersynth, from electronic industrial, EBM and synthpop, layered with cinematic orchestral textures and club-oriented electronics. Bjørn Marius Borg, Hans-Olof Mattsson and Erlend Eilertsen pair machine rhythms and synth melodies with lead vocals.

Xenturion Prime ‘Halcyon’: a single ahead of the fifth album

“Halcyon” is a digital single, available on Bandcamp through Progress Productions, the label Xenturion Prime have released through since their 2013 debut EP “Rise”. The single’s accompanying note describes “Halcyon” as “an epic new track” and calls the group “one of the strongest and best acts within the electronic/epic synth genre”.

The track continues a run of singles that began with “Leviathan Alpha”, released in February 2025 as the first single from the upcoming album, and “The Hidden Path”, released on February 6, 2026. The forthcoming record will be the band’s fifth studio album, after “Mecha Rising” (2014), “Humanity Plus” (2017), “Signals From The Abyss” (2021) and “Prisma” (2022).

About Xenturion Prime

Xenturion Prime formed in 2013, when Bjørn Marius Borg and Hans-Olof Mattsson continued together after the Swedish electropop act Code 64. The project, based in Vestfold, Norway, debuted at the ElektroStat festival in Oslo in October 2013 and issued its first EP, “Rise”, on December 20, 2013 through Progress Productions. The debut album “Mecha Rising” followed in 2014.

Cathrine Räisänen Andersen joined in 2017, expanding the duo to a trio for the second album “Humanity Plus”, released that year on Progress Productions. The band issued “Signals From The Abyss” on April 30, 2021, then “Prisma” on June 10, 2022, followed by the remix album “Prisma Refracted” in 2024, with reworkings by Valhall, Lights A.M. and Vanguard. Erlend Eilertsen, of Essence Of Mind, joined in 2024, and the current lineup is Borg, Mattsson and Eilertsen.

The band described its approach to genre in a 2018 Side-Line interview, stating they are “more interested in evolving as a band than to stay ‘pure'”. “Halcyon”, released on June 27, 2026, is the latest single from Xenturion Prime as the trio works toward its fifth studio album.

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